Re: [nznog] Why is xtra.mail in AU?

On 27/08/2007, at 3:32 PM, Don Gould wrote:

Doing some traceroutes to the xtra mail servers, it would appear they've moved all their mail handling to AU.

Does anyone have any idea why?

It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ.

Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something?

Last week's discussion, clearly. Xtra now use Yahoo to handle their mail. Yahoo's closest point of presence is in AU. Why were you doing traceroutes to Xtra's mail servers? Is it causing you real world problems? -- Nathan Ward